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Fun and engaging for kids ages 3-11, these 25 therapist-created Songames offer a world of developmental play activities. Plus, the 53-page companion booklet explains how to use music to enhance specific skills, provides a comprehensive list of resources, and triples the number of therapeutic ways to use the games!

Songames can engage children in active play and help children learn to calm down and stay focused, as well as enhance oral-motor skills and expressive-language play.

Includes 2 CDs + booklet - 87 minutes of music

ISBN: 978-1-932565-95-9  $14.95  BUY IT NOW!

28 games that make children feel good about themselves— what could be more fun than that?? Winner of the 2000 Oppenheim Toy Portfolio SNAP Award and Dr. Toy's Best Vacation Children's Products, 28 Instant Songames is great fun for typical children as well as those with special needs!

Fun and engaging for kids ages 3-8, "Songames" are musical activities for improving fine-and gross-motor skills, muscle strength, and rhythmicity. This full-length, 28-song music CD will get kids up and moving in no time. The activities include numerous games of body awareness, movement play, feeling identification, and self-expression, as well as imagination games that encourage expressive language play.

The 28 Instant Songames are:

• Non-competitive
• Inclusion friendly
• Kid-tested, parent-approved
• A great way to induce a state of playfulness and magical wonder
• Perfect for gradual change; kids can change the way they play the games each time
• Great play activities for home, school, and clinic settings

Includes CD + 48-page booklet

Regular Price: $21.95  ON SALE $9.95  BUY IT NOW!

This delightfully illustrated "chapter book," geared for 8-to-12 year olds, tells the charming tale of five family members and their naughty dog (each with a different sensory processing challenge), and how they get in sync after a tough day. The book is designed with the action of the story in larger print for younger readers to read or hear. Explanations of sensory processing issues are woven throughout the story in regular type for proficient readers to linger over at leisure.

Everyone with sensory issues will find a character with whom to identify. Darwin, 11, is over-responsive to sensory stimulation. Edward, 5, is under-responsive. Teen-aged Carrie has difficulties with dyspraxia. The father, Andy, has sensory discrimination issues. The mother, Betsy, and the dog, Filibuster, are definitely sensory seekers.

The Goodenoughs explain what they need to do to function successfully, and at the end of the day, they all get back in sync. Readers will appreciate descriptions and illustrations of activities that they can replicate in their own homes or classrooms.

The Goodenoughs Get in Sync, first edition, was the winner of an i-Parenting Media Award and was a Finalist for ForeWord Magazine's 2005 Book of the Year for juvenile non-fiction.

Regular Price: $14.95  ON SALE $7.95  BUY IT NOW!

This Danceland is a musical invitation to move joyfully and creatively!

Offering safe and surgent fun for kids of all abilities, you'll be surprised and delighted by all the sensory-motor activities hidden in Danceland. The music invites participation and engages children in rhythmic expression, which is fundamental to physical, cognitive, and emotional development. Designed by physical and occupational therapists, over 75 movement activities can be adapted for physical education and home programming.

The "travel guide" combines theory with instruction, while encouraging you to put your own creative twists on the activities. Turn dances into games, choreographed stories, or theatrical performances! Polka to an authentic Krakowiak, or have kids choreograph their own movements to singer Lora Dart's Native American song "Touch the Earth." Kids can croon karaoke-style to an uproarious re-make of the 60s hit "Wild Thing," or have a Kwanzaa party to "Wisdom of Africa." The possibilities are endless!


Includes CD + booklet

Regular Price: $21.95  ON SALE $9.95  BUY IT NOW!

Developing healthy visual-motor abilities is more difficult in the complex stimulus of today’s world than ever before. Our visual experiences can be overwhelmed by the vast complexity of artificial colors and sounds, which did not exist in our ancestors’ lives. This helpful book gives an overview of the development of vision, with a checklist of warning signs of vision problems based on the studies of behavioral optometry. It also integrates a discussion of the importance of integrating all the senses equally in the development of optimal visual skills, rooted in the field of occupational therapy. Practical, playful activities designed to improve visual skills in both adults and children are also included. A must read for anyone dealing with visual difficulties!

Regular Price: $9.95  ON SALE $4.95  BUY IT NOW!

Every kid loves birthday parties, right? Wrong! For a child with Sensory Processing Disorder, parties can be an overload of noise, tastes, and smells. Often, other children and adults don't understand why a child is not having fun like he is "supposed" to.

In this colorful picture book, a child's voice explains why parties can be painful for some kids. Balloons are popping, kids are screaming, party games are confusing---does a kid have to endure all of this to be a good friend? In the end, perhaps it would be better to celebrate a friend's birthday on another day. That's still being a great best friend!

Author Laurie Renke, mother to sons and illustrators Jake and Max, wrote this wonderful children's book for her young son with SPD, and to raise SPD awareness. She says, "I wrote this book for every child who would rather not go to his or her best friend's birthday party. I hope that after reading this book, everyone who knows a child like this, as well as that child, will start to understand some reasons why events like this might be anything but fun for many children."

Regular Price: $14.95  ON SALE $8.95  BUY IT NOW!

Art encourages communication, a positive self-image, concept development, spatial relationships, fine-motor skills, and many more facets of healthy childhood development. In this book, Toni Flowers provides dozens of artistic activities that will delight children with autism. Notes on each activity page offer helpful do’s and don’ts, along with many real-life experiences. Give the children in your life the opportunity to express themselves.

ISBN: 978-1-885477-44-6  $14.95  BUY IT NOW!

In this book, Dr. Lewis reprises her original medical explanations in condensed form, with informative updates and new recipes. Virtually all researchers now recommend eliminating gluten/casein from the diets of children on the autism spectrum. You’ll love the recipes in this book—you can make strawberry ice cream, pumpkin pie, and so much more. This gluten-free, casein-free cookbook will inspire you to create innovative dishes of your own.

ISBN: 978-1-885477-81-1  $14.95  BUY IT NOW!

Special Sale on Special Diets!

These books—each one is part medical treatise, part cookbook—will teach you how to make GFCF entrees, breads, desserts, and many other foods the entire family will enjoy eating.

In a nutshell, certain enzymes are required to break down gluten and casein. If the enzymes that normally break down casein and gluten don’t function well, serious neurological problems can result. Studies have shown that children with autism have a marked deficiency of these enzymes, so gluten-free casein-free (GFCF) diets have yielded positive results for many children.

First Runner-Up in the Writers Notes Book Awards, this original Special Diets book has been helping children and adults with autism, ADHD, Celiac disease, and other disorders since 1998! The first part of the book describes the diet in detail, from both a scientific and a personal approach (the author's son has autism and their family has been on the GFCF diet for years). Helpful sections include:

• Sam’s Story
• About Special Diets
• Allergy or Intolerance
• Tests and Nutritional Supports
• How (And What) to Feed Your Child
• Help From Friends & Relatives

Next, the cookbook part contains over 140 recipes, including many you would have never thought possible on a GFCF diet, such as:

• Breaded chicken nuggets and fish sticks
• Spaghetti and Meatballs
• Pizza
• Mock mac-and-cheese
• Pancakes and muffins
• Cookies and cakes
• And more!

Then, in Volume Two, Dr. Lewis provides updated research, and over 80 additional recipes!

Included are:

• Smoothies and shakes
• Soups and stews
• Barbeque chicken and buffalo wings
• Salad dressings
• Pie crusts
• Mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes
• And more!

Jenny McCarthy made this book even more famous when she referenced it extensively in her 2008 bestseller, Louder Than Words:

"I knew the months ahead would seem like years while I waited for services, so I decided to educate myself on diet interventions. I ordered a book called Special Diets for Special Kids Two. … The book came in the mail. Special Diets for Special Kids Two. I couldn't wait to read it and fill my eager heart with more knowledge. I was blown away when I read that mothers often noticed that their autistic children were malnourished because they couldn’t absorb nutrients from food. … Could it really be true? Could diet make that much of an impact? … I found it completely fascinating and exciting that a diet could help. … I couldn’t believe that the gut could correlate to the brain and that what I fed Evan could have a direct link to his behaviors. But I was inspired and willing to give a diet a shot. … so I made this my new mission."

Includes:Special Diets for Special Kids: Understanding and Implementing Special Diets to Aid in the Treatment, Special Diets for Special Kids Two: More Great-tasting Recipes and Tips for Implementing Special Diets

Regular Price: $59.90  ON SALE $29.95  BUY IT NOW!

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